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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf "someone" never practices safe sex
Could that explain why they act erratic and unhinged more and more often as the disease takes over their brain"? Just a question...
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If "someone" never practices safe sex (Original Post)
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(52,317 posts)1. "someone" might be diseased, all right, but not likely something easily treatable.
especially with plenty of money and easy access to good healthcare.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)2. Never thought of that. Probably not but ya never know
Faux pas
(14,690 posts)3. I diagnosed
his syphilitic brain when he came down the escalator and blasted out his bigoted BS for the world to hear.
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)4. You a doctor?
Venereal diseases are treated nowadays.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)6. Treated? Have you seen Trump's doctors?
apnu
(8,758 posts)7. Yes, but he may have it all the same
Either its been in his system for a long time, or he's not been treating it. Look at the quack doctor he used for his physical.
His actions now do suggest syphilis or dementia. Given he has no real, and public, health exam, we can't say either way.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)5. Well, WebMD has a vanilla explanation...
https://www.webmd.com/sexual-conditions/understanding-syphilis-symptoms#1
But, Wiki is a lot more graphic...
But, Wiki is a lot more graphic...
General paresis, also known as general paralysis of the insane or paralytic dementia, is a severe neuropsychiatric disorder, classified as an organic mental disorder and caused by the chronic meningoencephalitis that leads to cerebral atrophy in late-stage syphilis. Degenerative changes are associated primarily with the frontal and temporal lobar cortex. The disease affects approximately 7% of infected individuals. It prevails among men.
GPI was originally considered to be a type of madness due to a dissolute character, when first identified in the 18th century. Then the cause-effect connection with syphilis was discovered in the late 1880s. Subsequently, the discovery of penicillin and its use in the treatment of syphilis rendered paresis curable and avoidable. Prior to these events, paresis was inevitably fatal unless another terminating illness intervened, and it accounted for as much as 25% of the primary diagnoses for residents in public psychiatric hospitals.
GPI was originally considered to be a type of madness due to a dissolute character, when first identified in the 18th century. Then the cause-effect connection with syphilis was discovered in the late 1880s. Subsequently, the discovery of penicillin and its use in the treatment of syphilis rendered paresis curable and avoidable. Prior to these events, paresis was inevitably fatal unless another terminating illness intervened, and it accounted for as much as 25% of the primary diagnoses for residents in public psychiatric hospitals.
Neurosyphilis is an infection of the brain or spinal cord caused by the spirochete Treponema pallidum. It usually occurs in people who have had chronic, untreated syphilis, usually about 10 to 20 years after first infection[1] and develops in about 25%40% of persons who are not treated.[2] The United States' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advises that neurosyphilis can occur at any stage of a syphilis infection.